You Should Call Me Uncle

Novel blurb:

[Jiang Zhaozhao (zhao) X Chu Xian, alternate universe, older man-younger woman, an old flame reignited.]

Jiang Zhaozhao was reborn.

In her previous life, she died on her wedding night.

That evening, the groom, Wei Yunlan, was still entertaining the guests in the front hall when a fire mysteriously broke out in the rear courtyard.

But someone had locked the bridal chamber door from the outside, and Jiang Zhaozhao couldn't escape.

As smoke poured in without end, just before she suffocated, she vaguely saw someone rush into the sea of flames.

But, sadly, that person wasn't the groom. It was his uncle, Chu Xian.

Even sadder, Chu Xian arrived too late.

She never woke up. He had only managed to save her corpse.

Perhaps because she couldn't accept how she died, her soul wandered the world for many years.

She watched Wei Yunlan marry her cousin three months after her death.

She watched her usually stern imperial uncle slaughter the entire Wei family for her sake.

What surprised her most was Chu Xian.

After rushing into the fire that night and saving her body, he hadn't escaped unharmed.

The moment he rushed in and held her, the canopy bed overhead suddenly collapsed. He shielded her with his arm.

Later, a long scar remained on his arm, running from his forearm to his wrist.

Whenever it was nearly healed, Chu Xian would tear open the scab. In an instant, blood streamed out. Yet he seemed not to feel any pain, watching the blood drip down one drop at a time, his expression calm and his gaze dark.

At the time, Jiang Zhaozhao was floating beside him, cursing him out, but he couldn't hear a single word.

Later, she watched him rise to the rank of Grand General and become the military commander whom all the officials feared most.

And the scar on his arm... never faded.

When she opened her eyes again, Jiang Zhaozhao had returned to the eve of her coming-of-age ceremony. Unmarried, with the best years of her life ahead of her.

Later, Wei Yunlan made his feelings for her known in a roundabout way and sent someone to ask for her hand in marriage.

Jiang Zhaozhao's slender fingers lifted Chu Xian's chin. Her eyes smoldered as she said, "If I'm to marry, I'll marry him alone."

"There are people watching. Don't make a scene." The man's expression remained calm as he caught her mischievous hand.

In private, she asked again, "Brother Jinghong, would you marry me?"

Chu Xian's brow twitched. "Your father and I are as close as brothers. By our seniority, you should call me Uncle."

Jiang Zhaozhao said, "That's all right. I don't mind that you're older."

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"The Maiden's Deity," Yinglong X a girl.

Theme: Tread through darkness, and keep your heart turned toward the light.